Microsoft & WSRP

WSRP is excellent technology. Microsoft was the part of WSRP specification committee. But why we have not seen any effort from Microsoft to support WSRP? The answer is very simple. Microsoft fear to loose it's market-share to some other portal servers especially java based portal servers. It seems that Microsoft would not want to support this standard because it will allow "heavier" portal services to be hosted on Java, and Sharepoint will remain a presentation/collaboration oriented "lightweight" tool. Also the concept of delivering presentation over ws contradicts (not only) Microsofts strategy on datadriven webservices (BizTalk etc.). WSRP also seems heavily bound to Java, using the word portlets. But any Techie can find that there is nothing Java specific. Also Microsoft has majority of Desktop market-share. If focus get shifted to portals and portal services, Microsoft will lose the most. So what is the future of WSRP without the platform of choice? WSRP is catching up fast at least among Java portals. One it's started picking-up and some third-party WSRP portals on .Net will be there, Microsoft will find itself losing market. There is already few WSRP consumers and producers for Dot Net. I have used
NetUnity partially and it worked excellent for me. So Microsoft will have to enter into the WSRP arena whether it want it or not. Microsoft, as we know it, always takes some time to catch the technology and once it entered into it, it lefts everyone behind. So I see some heavy preparation is going-on inside the Microsoft and you might see some bombing from them after some time.